If the call of this week's "new" LPGA event sounds acquainted, it truly is due to the fact it's miles. Many of the LPGA contributors have played within the Swinging Skirts match for years. I've had a bit problem tracking down the respectable history of the occasion (if a number of you realize it, just upload it in the comments), however I are aware of it changed into at the start an occasion on the Taiwan LPGA's schedule, known as the Swinging Skirts TLPGA Open in 2011. I think it changed into an invitational event in 2012, and then it have become the Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters in 2013, a cosponsored event among the TLPGA and the KLPGA.
Now it is the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, and it's the first cosponsored occasion (among the TLPGA and the LPGA) ever on American soil.
The event will be held at Lake Merced Golf Club in San Francisco. The LPGA last had an occasion in the Bay Area returned in 2010, the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge (Beatriz Recari's first LPGA win), so that is a go back to a popular stop. And numerous of the players, like Paula Creamer and Juli Inkster, are from this vicinity so they are doubly glad to be returned!
This is form of a homecoming for Michelle Wie as properly, because Stanford University is close by.
As normal, Tony Jesselli has a preview of this occasion at his blog. The maximum incredible absence is Lexi Thompson while perhaps the most superb player to expose up is Suzann Pettersen. Suzann has missed approximately a month of play at the same time as she treated a awful again (I heard it turned into a bulging disc), but Kay Cockerill on GC said that Suzann become going after her pictures with full difficult swings and appeared to be doing properly.
It will be thrilling to peer how Suzann does due to the fact Inbee has now not managed to separate herself from the rest of the top players in the Rolex Rankings. Only 1.29 factors separate #1 Inbee, #2 Suzann, and #three Stacy Lewis so matters ought to tighten up appreciably this week.
Because of the time difference, we are once again treated to live golf in prime time. The 3-hour Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic broadcast starts tonight on GC at 6:30pm ET .
I think the most effective actual question right now could be whether it'll nevertheless be an LPGA event subsequent yr. But here's a great guess: If it does flow once more, anywhere it ends up it's going to probable still be called the Swinging Skirts. The Taiwanese employer that commenced it -- the Swinging Skirts -- will see to that.
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